contained in this hadith, for they inevitably make more mistakes than others in transmitting hadiths, owing to their ignorance of the sunnah and their lack of concern for it.

Sixth: Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ. Yazīd ibn Abī ʿUbayd narrated it from him, saying: I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say:

“Whoever says about me ...”—the hadith.

Al-Bukhārī narrated it (109): Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Abī ʿUbayd narrated to us.

I say: This is an authentic three-narrator chain of transmission.

Seventh: Ibn ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with them. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār narrated from him, in one of his hadiths, with the wording:

“Among the gravest fabrications is for someone to attribute to me what I did not say.”

Its documentation has preceded under hadith 3063.

Eighth: Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naṣrī narrated it from him in a report attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording.

Al-Bukhārī (3509) and al-Ṭabarānī in Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn (pp. 211 and 369–370) recorded it; it too has already preceded there.

Ninth: Abū Mūsā al-Ghāfiqī. Wadāʿah al-Ḥamdī narrated it from him; from Wadāʿah, Yaḥyā ibn Maymūn al-Ḥaḍramī; and from the latter, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith. The narrators differed in reporting it from him: some of them did not mention Wadāʿah, who is unknown and whom no one besides Ibn Ḥibbān declared reliable. It contains an anomalous expression—as al-Ḥākim said—and because of it I included it in al-Ḍaʿīfah (6406). *